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Michael Pento

Michael Pento

Pentoport

Contributor since: 19 Oct 2011

Biography

Michael Pento produces the weekly podcast "The Mid-week Reality Check", is the President and Founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies and Author of the book "The Coming Bond Market Collapse."

  • QE III Game of Chicken

    Published 06 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Most investors and market pundits continue to misdiagnose the reason behind the worldwide economic malaise. The underlying problem isn't "uncertainty" or any other platitudes Wall…

  • Deflation Isn't the Enemy

    Published 22 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    We now live in a world where deflation has become public enemy number one. In this current economic environment, governments seek a condition of perpetual…

  • Austerity Offers Europe their Only Hope

    Published 16 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The prevailing view amongst Keynesians is that the austerity measures being taken in Europe to prevent a complete currency and bond market collapse is the…

  • The Inflation Lovers' Spat

    Published 01 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Two lovers of the notion that inflation can cure everything that ails an economy recently squared off in a battle over who adores counterfeiting the…

  • Decoupling Myth Destroyed

    Published 24 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

    I would have thought that the decoupling myth between global economies would have been completely discredited after the events of this past credit crisis unfolded.…

  • The Anatomy of Sovereign Default

    Published 17 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The three primary factors that determine the interest rate level a nation must pay to service its debt in the long term are; the currency,…

  • What Causes Interest Rates to Rise

    Published 28 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The prevailing notion among the main stream media and economists is that interest rates are rising because of improving economic growth. But like many of…

  • Is the Economy Really Healing?

    Published 20 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Please don't believe the hype that the American economy is healing. While it is true that some data is showing improvement, the true fundamentals of…

  • Global Slowdown Paves Way for QE III

    Published 14 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Back in early 2011, I was one of the few economists to warn that global GDP growth would slow dramatically in the near future and…

  • The Mystery behind Rising Oil Prices Solved

    Published 01 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Everything I've been warning about regarding the fallout from global central bankers' love affair with inflation is coming to fruition. Consumers are once again dealing…

  • Fed Conflates Inflation with Growth

    Published 24 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

    It is a sad situation when everything the man in charge of our central bank professes to understand about inflation is wrong. Mr. Bernanke does…

  • Trade Deficit Data Belies U.S. Recovery

    Published 14 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Wall Street is extolling the virtues of our rising U.S. trade deficit as a sure sign the economy is well on the road to a…

  • Bell Rings for Bond Bubble

    Published 08 February 2012 | viewed 0 times

    They always tell you no one rings a bell when a market top or bottom is reached. But a bell is now ringing for the…

  • The Intrinsic Value of the Dollar and Gold

    Published 18 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

    If you ask most investors what is the main driver for the price of gold they are likely you tell you that it's the direction…

  • Fed Dismisses Economic Recovery

    Published 11 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

    The Fed is becoming more concerned about the sustainability of the U.S. recovery, just as the economy looks to be gaining momentum. The unemployment rate…

  • Math Vindicates Standard and Poor's Debt Downgrade

    Published 03 January 2012 | viewed 0 times

    Standard and Poor's has been greatly vilified for their call to lower the U.S. credit rating to AA+ from AAA. The evidence, naysayers point to,…

  • Maastricht Light

    Published 14 December 2011 | viewed 0 times

    The original parameters used to construct the European Monetary Union were set up by the Maastricht Treaty of 1992.  The Treaty on European Union contained…

  • Draghi Borrows Paulson's Bazooka

    Published 14 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

    The latest round of optimism on display late last week from Wall Street was based upon the supposed resolution--once again--of all Europe's problems. However, the…

  • The Zombie Club of Nations

    Published 01 November 2011 | viewed 0 times

    Greece has supposedly received a bailout and markets across the globe are soaring. In fact, they are rising in the same manner they did a…

  • Fed's Dual Mandate Not Working

    Published 19 October 2011 | viewed 0 times

    We are all aware that the Fed has a dual mandate of stable prices and maximum employment. But what may come as a surprise to…